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Deepalaya is the largest operating non-governmental organisation ( NGO) in India’s national capital state Delhi, working on issues affecting the development of the urban and rural poor in India, with a special focus on children. Deepalaya’s official motive for its existence and work is the slogan ‘Every child deserves a chance’.
The organisation was founded in 1979. Since then it has seen a continuous growth in staff, beneficiaries and fields of activities. Deepalaya’s main areas of influence are the urban slums of Delhi, but inroads into rural development in the states of Haryana and Uttarakhand have been made as well. The essence of Deepalaya’s approaches is concisely inherent in the Chinese maxim ‘Give someone a fish and you feed him for a day; teach the person to fish and you feed him for a lifetime’, for Deepalaya similarly aims at triggering off sustainable development from within.
According to statistics, from 2009–2010, 23.18% of the organization’s total income is attributed to donations received and 52.37% of its total income consists of government grants. HSBC India is an organization in the banking industry that too supports Deepalaya through donations and voluntary works. However, Deepalaya still runs a deficit in most of the years. In the aforementioned financial year, Deepalaya experienced US$236,741.42 in deficit.